Video footage from a hotel security camera taken Oct. 23 shows Blake using pepper spray on Esterlin and then handcuffing the cab driver after he collapsed to the sidewalk. Blake first approached Esterlin for illegally parking on Dauphine Street in the French Quarter.

The police arrested and booked Esterlin for battery after Blake said Esterlin punched him in the eye.

Following the release of the security footage last week, the city dropped the charges against Esterlin and announced that the Office of Inspector General is investigating the bureau and its director Malachi Hull.

Two weeks after Blake's altercation with Esterlin, several tourists captured video footage of bureau investigator Wilton Joiner in a physical confrontation with tour guide Wendy Bosma that resulted in simple battery charges against Joiner.

The city suspended Blake and Joiner without pay, put all bureau investigators on desk duty and took away their mace and handcuffs.